Anti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies argues that racial disparities in HIV rates reflect the organization of racialized poverty and structural violence.
An insider's account of the Postville case, this book gauges the raid's human, social, and economic impact, based on interaction with the main participants and interviews with local citizens and arrestees in the US and Guatemala.
In most Caribbean countries homosexuality is still illegal and many outside of the region are unaware of how difficult life can be for gay men and lesbians.
The Republic of Sudan's former Culture Minister and a leading architect in the movement to gain independence for South Sudan, Bona Malwal, provides a factual and personal account of the break up of Sudan.
The recent trend in the global system is to evaluate the development of any country not in terms of their military or economic strength or the splendor of their capital cites and big public buildings, but also in terms of human development or the well being of its citizens.
This volume focuses on challenges to the effective and proper use of human rights and tries to identify, through a series of case studies, strategies and contexts in which human rights advocacy can work in favor of human rights, as well as situations in which such advocacy may backfire, or unintentionally cause harm.
The book discusses the changing relationship between American Catholic Bishops and civil authorities in the United States, as civil authority has eclipsed traditional Catholic ecclesiastical privilege and clerical exemption resulting from the hierarchical mismanagement and cover-up of clerical sexual abuse in the United States.
This short book discusses some of the urgent critical debates regarding intercultural education on displacement during turbulent times of contentious border politics and ramped-up anti-migrant discourse.
This short book discusses some of the urgent critical debates regarding intercultural education on displacement during turbulent times of contentious border politics and ramped-up anti-migrant discourse.
Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development's failure to alleviate poverty and inequality, achieve sustainability and deliver happiness to humanity.
Este libro colectivo pretende aportar al lector diversas ideas, conceptos y mecanismos de utilidad para una mejor protección internacional de los derechos humanos.
This book offers a new critical perspective on emerging and alternative 'spaces' for emancipation within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities.
This book challenges mainstream arguments about the de-ethnicization of citizenship in Europe, offering a critical discussion of normative justifications for ethno-cultural citizenship and an original elaboration of principles of membership suitable for contemporary liberal democratic states.
Church of Our Granddaughters is a visionary work of theology and ethics that looks hopefully and lovingly two generations into the future, imagining the Orthodox Church's practices and realities rightfully aligned with its core theological teachings and truths regarding women.
Based on extensive fieldwork that began in Argentina, this book asks how detained and disappeared persons inhabit the categories that international law has constructed to mark, judge, understand, and repair the horror.
This book critically analyses diverse international criminal law (ICL) issues in light of recent developments in the international criminal justice system following the pursuit of accountability in Africa and around the world.
Drawing from theories of world society and from historical-sociological theories the book studies the past, present, and future of Middle East Christianity.
El fenómeno del cristianismo sionista nos invita a preguntarnos sobre la secularización de las sociedad, qué problema plantea a la separación de Iglesia y Estado o más aún: la separación entre religión y política.
This volume makes available transcripts and commentary from the secret correspondence between former Chechen foreign minister Ilyas Akhmatov and Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov.
First published in 1974, The American Prison Business studies the lunacies, the delusions, and the bizarre inner workings of the American prison business.
DISTINGUISHED PUBLICATION AWARD FOR THE NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION'S COMMUNICATION AND LAW DIVISION The First Amendment: protected by law, threatened by fear in the Roberts Supreme Court.
Take action to promote social justice with help from this practical guideSocial justice is about uplifting and empowering underserved and marginalized communities impacted by systems of oppression.
Dieses Lehrbuch stellt zunächst eine Reihe von klassischen philosophischen Ansätzen vor, um zu zeigen, dass sie als Grundlage für die Menschenrechte ungeeignet sind.
¿Ha de buscarse la causa de este mundo detestable en los presuntos enemigos de los derechos, los cuales, además, son difíciles de identificar, y, por tanto, en un dato externo a los derechos, o sea, en su actuación defectuosa cuyo remedio habría de procurarse por la promoción de esos mismos derechos?
Con una atenta y minuciosa selección de textos, discursos y homilías de Jorge Mario Bergoglio, este volumen remarca la continuidad existente en sus palabras desde el inicio de su camino sacerdotal hasta llegar al "pontificado de la ternura y de la misericordia", como ha sido definido por conocidos comentaristas.
El libro está dedicado a la memoria de todos aquellos grandes y honrados pensadores, políticos, críticos y oradores, cuya lista es bastante larga en Colombia, que han sido asesinados como Marco Tulio Cicerón (a quien su maestro Publio Mucio Escévola, también asesinado, según Taylor Caldwell, le había vaticinado no alcanzar una edad avanzada por sus "absurdas" teorías sobre los derechos del hombre y la democracia, por no haber cedido en su empeño de hablar con claridad respecto a la búsqueda de la paz, la cual implica una relación íntima entre la represión de la agresividad y la puesta en escena de los deberes y los derechos humanos; por las deficiencias simbólicas de la época y la intolerancia de las mentes corruptas, que nunca han sido capaces de aceptar una palabra clara, coherente y veraz con la que se diferencien lo real, lo simbólico y lo imaginario en la comunicación humana y en el ejercicio de los oficios, en los que lo simbólico es un punto intermedio que representa el Nombre del Padre.
El libro está dedicado a la memoria de todos aquellos grandes y honrados pensadores, políticos, críticos y oradores, cuya lista es bastante larga en Colombia, que han sido asesinados como Marco Tulio Cicerón (a quien su maestro Publio Mucio Escévola, también asesinado, según Taylor Caldwell, le había vaticinado no alcanzar una edad avanzada por sus "absurdas" teorías sobre los derechos del hombre y la democracia, por no haber cedido en su empeño de hablar con claridad respecto a la búsqueda de la paz, la cual implica una relación íntima entre la represión de la agresividad y la puesta en escena de los deberes y los derechos humanos; por las deficiencias simbólicas de la época y la intolerancia de las mentes corruptas, que nunca han sido capaces de aceptar una palabra clara, coherente y veraz con la que se diferencien lo real, lo simbólico y lo imaginario en la comunicación humana y en el ejercicio de los oficios, en los que lo simbólico es un punto intermedio que representa el Nombre del Padre.
*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize*'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT'Deft and operatic' OBSERVERFrom one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela's relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
This book, a follow-up publication to the 2016 volume Foreign Fighters under International Law and Beyond, zooms in on the responses that the international community and individual States are implementing in response to (prospective and actual) returning foreign fighters (FFs) and their families, focusing on returnees from Syria and Iraq to European countries.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers meets Under an Afghan Sky in this mesmerizing true story of the Nigerian girls taken captive by the terrorist group Boko HaramIn April 2014, the world awoke to the shocking news that the terrorist group Boko Haram had kidnapped nearly 300 school-aged girls and taken them deep into the forests of Nigeria.
Building on the success of Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clich s, this follow up volume dismantles a further 10 widespread stereotypes and clich s about religion, focusing on clich s that a new generation of students are most familiar with.
